We are Academy Award winning creators of special characters and character effects. Calling upon a diverse range of talents and techniques, we create prosthetic make-ups, animatronic puppets, actor duplicates and replica animals. With over twenty-five years of professional experience, we bring "real" character effects to the set to interact with actors, lighting, and practical atmosphere. We pride ourselves on working with the industry's leading cgi companies to find the right balance of digital and practical effects. We continue to provide film-makers with realistic and economical character effects that best serve the story and the production.

Alec Gillis

As a kid, Alec Gillis’ father told stories of makeup great Dick Smith, and Effects wizard Gene Warren, Sr.
Having sold Dick Smith an insurance policy in the 50’s, and having an aunt that dated the elder Mr.Warren made his father somewhat of an expert in Special Effects, at least in young Alec’s eyes. With a
burning curiosity about the tricks of filmmaking, Alec decided, at age thirteen, to pursue a career in Creature Effects.

Tom Woodruff, Jr.

Born in Williamsport, Pennsylvania in 1959, much of Tom's early interest in movies and monsters was a result of late‐night broadcasts of the now classic Universal monster movies and the stop‐motion effects of Ray Harryhausen. Finally, seeing one of the Planet of the Apes films in a theater focused his attention on the craft of make‐up, while getting his hands on his father's 8mm home movie camera at 13 years old ...